HaMoked: Center for the Defence of the Individual

25/08/2026

We have a new email address!

[email protected]

This address is dedicated to requests for legal aid and assistance concerning human rights violations against Palestinians.

Please note: it is intended only for people seeking direct assistance from HaMoked.

For media inquiries, information requests, and other matters, please continue to use our regular email address listed on our website and in our bio.

06/08/2026

"הם חייבים לעבור את המחסום הזה מידי יום על מנת להגיע לעבודה, לבתי ספר,
לביטוח לאומי לקופת חולים, לטיפת חלב"

כך מתארת מאיסא אבו סאלח אבו עכר, עורכת דין במוקד להגנת הפרט, את מציאות החיים מעבר למחסום קלנדיה. הראיון במסגרת פודקאסט "סינדרום ירושלים" של Ir amim עיר עמים عير عميم והפורום לחשיבה האזורית, פרויקט מיוחד שמתאר את מציאות החיים בירושלים מנקודת המבט של תושביה הפלסטינים.

מחנה קלנדיה, הממוקם בין רמאללה לירושלים בסמוך למחסום קלנדיה, הוא אחד ממחנות הפליטים הגדולים במרכז הגדה המערבית, ומתגוררים בו למעלה מ־16,000 פלסטינים. אתמול (5 באוגוסט 2026) פתחו כוחות ישראליים במבצע צבאי רחב היקף במחנה.

במקביל, עשרות אלפי בני אדם התלויים במעבר קלנדיה דיווחו על עיכובים ממושכים ועל סגירה כמעט מוחלטת של המחסום, שפגעה באופן קשה בשגרת חייהם. עבור תושבי מזרח ירושלים המתגוררים מעבר לגדר ההפרדה, ונדרשים לעבור במחסום מדי יום, ההגבלות הללו הופכות את ההתנהלות היומיומית לכמעט בלתי אפשרית.

הלינק לפרק המלא בתגובה הראשונה🔗

05/08/2026

HaMoked: Center for the Defence of the Individual is seeking
a Resource Development Coordinator

Full-time maternity leave cover (starting December 2026)

This is an opportunity to join a leading human rights organization and become part of a professional and committed team working in a dynamic, challenging, and impactful environment. The position includes responsibility for resource development and fundraising, as well as maintaining ongoing relationships with donors and partners in Israel and abroad.

HaMoked offers professional guidance and support, opportunities for professional and personal development, and flexible hybrid work combining office-based and remote work.

Key responsibilities
• Managing the organization’s fundraising activities.
• Developing projects in collaboration with HaMoked’s teams and adapting them to relevant funding opportunities.
• Drafting and submitting grant applications to foundations, governments, and private donors, and preparing narrative reports for donors.
• Maintaining ongoing relationships with donors and partners in Israel and abroad.
• Working full-time and reporting directly to the Executive Director.

Qualifications
• A strong commitment to human rights.
• Excellent written and spoken English – required.
• Ability to work effectively in a Hebrew-speaking environment.
• Experience raising funds from foundations, governments, and private donors.
• Experience drafting grant applications and developing projects.
• Ability to work independently, remain organized, and meet deadlines.
• Excellent interpersonal and teamwork skills.

Please send a CV and cover letter detailing your interest and qualifications for the job to [email protected]. Applications will be received until 1.9.2026.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

05/08/2026

למוקד להגנת הפרט דרוש/ה רכז/ת פיתוח וגיוס משאבים

החלפה לחופשת לידה | משרה מלאה (100%)

מועד תחילת עבודה: דצמבר 2026

זוהי הזדמנות להצטרף לארגון מוביל בתחום זכויות האדם ולהשתלב בצוות מקצועי ומחויב, הפועל בסביבה דינמית, מאתגרת ובעלת השפעה. התפקיד כולל אחריות על פיתוח וגיוס משאבים ועל ניהול קשרים שוטפים עם תורמים ושותפים בארץ ובעולם.

המוקד מציע ליווי ותמיכה מקצועיים, השקעה בהתפתחות מקצועית ואישית וגמישות המשלבת עבודה מהמשרד ומהבית.

תחומי אחריות
• ניהול מערך גיוס המשאבים של הארגון.
• פיתוח פרויקטים בשיתוף צוותי הארגון והתאמתם להזדמנויות מימון.
• כתיבה והגשה של בקשות למענקים לקרנות, ממשלות ותורמים פרטיים, והכנת דוחות נרטיביים לתורמים.
• ניהול קשרים שוטפים עם תורמים ושותפים בארץ ובעולם.
• עבודה במשרה מלאה, בכפיפות ישירה למנכ"לית.

דרישות התפקיד
• מחויבות לערכי זכויות האדם.
• שליטה ברמה גבוהה מאוד באנגלית, בכתב ובעל פה – חובה.
• יכולת לעבוד בסביבה דוברת עברית.
• ניסיון בגיוס משאבים מקרנות, ממשלות ותורמים פרטיים.
• ניסיון בכתיבת בקשות למענקים ובפיתוח פרויקטים.
• יכולת עבודה עצמאית, סדר וארגון ועמידה בלוחות זמנים.
• יכולת עבודה בצוות ויחסי אנוש מצוינים.

יש לשלוח קורות חיים ומכתב נלווה המסביר את העניין וההתאמה לתפקיד, לכתובת: [email protected] עד לתאריך 1.9.20206.
רק מועמדים ומועמדות מתאימים ייענו.

29/07/2026

Throughout the more than 20 prison visits conducted by HaMoked since lawyers' access resumed, one pattern has emerged. Despite the violence, deprivation, and humiliation many detainees describe, almost every prisoner asks for the same thing: contact with their family.

Many ask our lawyers to reassure their loved ones, update them on their physical or mental condition, or ask whether anything has changed outside the prison walls.

For nearly three years, however, the Israel Prison Service has imposed a blanket ban on family visits for approximately 9,300 Palestinian security prisoners.

On July 26, 2026, HaMoked, together with three other human rights organizations, filed a new petition to the High Court of Justice challenging the continued prohibition on family visits.

The petition argues that security considerations must not become a blanket justification for suspending fundamental rights:

"The terms 'state of emergency,' much like 'security considerations,' must not become magic words that permit the abandonment of legality, proportionality, and fairness."

For more details, see the link in the first comment🔗

25/07/2026

*Urgent call to the international community to take immediate action to stop Israel's violence and prevent pogroms by settler militias and the Israeli army across the West Bank*

In recent days, violence by settler militias, enabled and supported by the Israeli army, has escalated across the West Bank, including the torching and destruction of Palestinian property, and the forced expulsion of families and communities. These attacks have been met with silence and inaction from much of the international community, allowing the violence to continue and intensify.

Today's event in the village of Tell (Area B) when a settlers' "tour" in the village ended with the killing of at least 4 Palestinians and 1 settler and several people injured, is leading to escalated violence in the area with settlers, ministers, and Knesset members calling for further revenge attacks which have already started across the West Bank. Experience shows that these events can escalate quickly into mass pogroms when met with silence.

We call on the international community to act now. Immediate pressure must be placed on GOI to stop further attacks, prevent pogroms and further killings, and ensure the protection of Palestinians, in accordance with Israel's obligations under international law.

Adalah; Akevot; Bimkom; Breaking the Silence; B’Tselem; Emek Shaveh; Gisha; HaMoked; Haqel; Human Rights Defenders Fund; Ir Amim; MachsomWatch; Parents Against Child Detention; Peace Now; Physicians for Human Rights Israel; Yesh Din; Zazim

22/07/2026

On July 10, 2024, at the height of the war in Gaza, an airstrike struck the Al-Gharam family home, killing the mother, father, and one of their children.

Six siblings survived, four of them minors, and were left orphaned. Their mother was an Israeli citizen who had married a Gaza resident and lived in Gaza under renewable military permits.

Over the following two years, the children remained trapped in Gaza, separated from their family in Israel. Every week of delay prolonged their suffering and increased the risks to their lives.

Together with the family, HaMoked pursued a determined legal campaign to secure the children's right to leave Gaza and reunite with their elder sister in Israel.

Finally, on July 8, 2026, the six siblings were able to leave Gaza. Despite everything, their sister Mais never stopped fighting for them - "We never stopped being a family," she told an AP correspondent.

https://apnews.com/article/gaza-israel-kerem-shalom-nazareth-palestinian-nuseirat-ad1fa83381a1fc66d51b66202de233cf

To read more about HaMoked's petition, see the link in the first comment🔗

A Palestinian family that was divided between Israel and Gaza was reunited this month after the eldest sister waged a two-year effort to bring her siblings to join her in Israel.

20/07/2026

According to testimonies from UN personnel, which HaMoked has not independently verified, between December 2023 and September 2024, the remains of 415 unidentified Palestinians were returned to Gaza. Transported in blue nylon bags—some bearing signs of mutilation—the bodies were buried in mass graves, their identities never established and their names never officially recorded.

This is not a new phenomenon. For years, HaMoked has fought legal battles to obtain basic information about Palestinians killed, arrested, or detained by Israeli authorities. Since October 2023, however, the problem has deepened. Rather than merely withholding information, Israeli authorities have increasingly failed to document their actions in the first place. Without documentation, accountability becomes almost impossible.

Through litigation, research, and advocacy, HaMoked works to reconstruct the missing records and demand truth, accountability, and justice for victims and their families.

https://www.972mag.com/gaza-palestinian-bodies-israel-transfer-chaos/

To read our report on enforced disappearances, see the link in the first comment🔗

Humanitarian workers describe a haphazard and deliberately opaque system for returning dead and living Gazans during the first months of the genocide — one that helps explain why thousands are still missing.

15/07/2026

On October 7, 2023, a sudden blackout plunged the Negev prison into darkness. That is how The Wall Street Journal opened its recent investigation.

But for the 9,299 Palestinian "security" prisoners currently held in Israeli prisons, the darkness has never lifted.

Behind prison walls, detainees have described starvation, severe beatings, denial of medical care, and sexual violence. Yet these allegations remain shrouded in secrecy, while those responsible operate with near-total impunity.

The continued ban on ICRC visits, the prohibition on family visits, and mounting restrictions on lawyers' access have created an environment in which abuse can flourish beyond public scrutiny.

What happens inside Israel's prisons is increasingly prevented from ever leaving them.

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/israel-palestinians-prison-treatment-eec50302?st=4BwLoh&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

To read more about HaMoked's efforts to tackle this information blackout, see the links in the comments🔗

Reports from Israeli groups and interviews with former detainees detail alleged violence, medical neglect and starvation.

07/07/2026

Being Palestinian today means knowing that, at any moment, you could lose your freedom, your home, your family—or simply disappear.

You can be arrested in the middle of the night and lose all contact with your family for months.

You can be denied access to life-saving medical treatment.

You can lose your legal status in Jerusalem and be deported from your home.

Since October 2023, this reality has only become more severe. More than two years later, many of the human rights violations that the war enabled are still present, becoming a permanent policy.

HaMoked is one of 22 Israeli human rights organizations behind a new joint report documenting the reality of the occupation as it enters its 60th year.

To read the full report, see the link in the first comment🔗